The June issue of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is a special issue entitled, “Ethnographies of Suicide.” As guest editors James Staples and Tom Widger write in their introduction:
“This special issue—which has its genesis in a 2-day, international workshop3—comes at the end of a century of sporadic anthropological interest in suicidal behaviour, building on the groundwork established by scholars such
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Since Spring 2008, I’ve been studying videogaming, conducting participant-observation research in and around the World of Warcraft (WoW), interviewing and surveying the citizens of this online community. I have been particularly fascinated by players’ relationships to their WoW “avatars,” the in-game graphical representations of their characters. Via avatars, gamers can temporarily separate or even “dissociate” from …
Next year’s Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry, hosted by the Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, will be held on July 5-7, 2012 and will be devoted to global mental health. Here’s the abstract for the event:
The emerging field of global mental health aims to address the enormous disparities in mental health outcomes
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This is the first in a series of posts covering cross-disciplinary research on theory of mind. The series is being posted simultaneously at Somatosphere and at the Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) blog.
Last weekend a small, international gathering of twenty-seven anthropologists and psychologists took place at the Stanford Humanities Center, organized by Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann…
The lectures from yet another conference on neuroscience/culture are available online. The conference “Talking Brains: Problems and Perspectives of the Neurosciences,” took place on December 3 and 4, 2010 at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. Below I reproduce the titles and abstracts of the talks, along with links to the audio recordings. To hear the talks, press the …
Back in October I wrote about the upcoming conference on “Cultures of the Internet,” which will be held as part of the Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry in Montreal on April 28 and 29, 2011. Now the final program is available and registration is open.
As you’ll see below, there have been a few changes made to the line-up …